The US Consumer Electronics Association released a study finding that the average U.S. household spent $1,229 on consumer electronics in the past year, a drop of $176 from the same period last year. According to the survey, “the 11th Annual Household CE Ownership and Market Potential Study,” men spent an average of $902 while women […]
UK broadcasters, online publishers and advertisers are reportedly close to agreeing a standardised system to measure online video viewing. The Broadband Measurement Working Group, a coalition of broadcasters, ISPs and measurement bodies, is to start testing a new measurement metric in June. The group includes the BBC, ITV, C4, Five, BSkyB, Virgin Media, BT, BARB, […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome According to the latest DGTVi survey conducted inFebruary 2009, the number of Italian households equipped with at least one DTT receiver in their main home arrived to 8.11m or 2.7 million more than one year earlier. The total number of DTT boxes in main homes was 9.84m an increase of […]
During the first three months of 2009 the “Chaînes Canal+” package commanded a 4.5 per cent share of French viewers, a 0.2-point increase from first-quarter 2008 that it says reflects the popularity of Canal+ Family and Canal+ Sport. The number of unique visitors to the new canalplus.fr website doubled to 2,354,000 in February, representing a […]
With judgement set to be made on the legality of RealNetworks' DVD copying software, RealNetworks has filed a new charge against the Hollywood studios, alleging they violated antitrust law by banding together to fight the video-copying software. Real filed its amended complaint in a federal court in San Francisco. It claims that the six major […]
The results of Nielsen's Three Screen Report – a quarterly analysis from Nielsen's Anywhere Anytime Media Measurement initiative show that the average American watches approximately 153 hours of TV every month at home, a 1.2 per cent increase from last year. In addition, the 131 million Americans who watch video on the Internet watch on […]
On-net behavioural ad targeter Phorm has hired SK Communications' search and portal VP Daniel Park to be its Korea CEO. Phorm now says it will demonstrate "an innovative new consumer proposition" on June 3. This, CEO Kent Ertugrul says, will be "the revolutionary centerpiece of our consumer proposition". It's not known whether this will be […]
Schutzgemeinschaft der Kapitalanleger (SdK), a German shareholders interest group has taken the former CEOs of German pay-TV platform Premiere to court over allegations of investment fraud and insider trading. SdK has brought a case against former CEOs Georg Kofler and Michael Börnicke in a Munich court, claiming the pair falsified subscriber numbers on two occasions. […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Ministry of Industry has decided to postpone the digital transition of 700 towns out of the 1,200 municipalities that planned to implement it by June 30, within the first phase of the analogue switch-off in the country, for lack of enough digital coverage. As a result, only 3 […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain's Telefonica has seen a 25 per cent increase in the number of its pay-TV clients around the world reaching a total of 2.3 million by the end of the first quarter of the year. Out of them 604,819 are in Spain to its IPTV service Imagenio, up 9.2 […]